Hosting 365

We’re really pleased to annouce that we are launching (right now … this is the launch!) a ‘Free Blog Plan’ as part of our hosting services line-up!

The features are straightforward - the plan comes with Wordpress and K2 as default (K2 has a hosting365 logo and link to our site … but you are free to change the theme or customise the existing one as much as you like, and at no cost), 100mb of web space and the ability to use your own domain name.

So what’s the big deal? There’s already a number of companies offering free blogs - but to my knowledge we are the only one to offer totally free hosting, with no ads (our logo is there by default … but you can change this) AND at your own domain name. Using your own domain is probably the most important feature and key differentiator for the plan - as it’s a premium service for most other offerings.

You have to register your own domain name (plug: register365.com!) or change your DNS settings to our nameservers if you want to use an existing domain (all this information will come in a mail after you sign up)

Now … to pre-answer some of the questions. Why are we doing this? I’ve persuaded the CEO that providing this kind of service to the blogging community is a far better use of the marketing budget than print advertising etc. How can we do this? We’ve got this great data centre and infrastructure. Okay … if we suddenly get 10,000 signups we might have to hold new plans until we get more hardware to support it.

And I’ll pre-empt any questions about the signup process now - after you signup you will recieve an email with your account details (control panel access) and DNS settings. This using our existing hosting system and not a custom designed solution - so when you login to the control panel you need to install wordpress. It’s a one-click install that’s as simple as the normal Wordpress install so don’t panic!

The only real restrictions are that this is a blogging plan only. You can hack it to provide free web site hosting … but if you do that we’ll disable the account. Business Blogs and Personal Blogs are most welcomed!
So … without further ado … signup for a free blog !